Underground Leviathan explores the emergence, dynamics, and effects of the United States Company, and how its mining operations shaped the business, environmental, political, and scientific landscape...
Mining in North America has long been criticized for its impact on the natural environment. Mica Jorgenson’s The Weight of Gold explores the history of Ontario, Canada’s rise to prominence in the...
This book takes readers on a cartographic journey through thousands of years of history in Las Vegas and explores many dimensions of the city today. Experience what Las Vegas was like in 1865, 1905, what lies beneath the waters of Lake Mead, an d what goes on in the vast public lands around the city.
Literary and Rhetorical Exploration of the Colorado River
by Paul A. Formisano
ISBN: 9781647790424
Pub Date: 26 April 2022
Format: Paperback
272 Pages
Tributary Voices takes a fresh look at the Colorado River through an interdisciplinary approach to the role stories play in cultivating a sustainable water ethic. Through literary, rhetorical, and historical analyses of some of the river’s lesser-known stakeholders, this study considers how our present moment on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Colorado River Compact demands a more comprehensive approach to river management.
Winner of the 2023 Clark Spence Award from the Mining History Association!An account of the creation of a modern, environmentally sensitive mine as told by the people who developed and worked it. In...
A History of Occupational Health in Greater Las Vegas
by Michelle Follette Turk
ISBN: 9781948908962
Pub Date: 15 December 2020
Format: eBook (Epublication 'content package')
416 Pages
The United States has a long and unfortunate history of exposing employees, the public, and the environment to dangerous work. But in April 2009, the spotlight was on Las Vegas when the Pulitzer committee...
A History of Occupational Health in Greater Las Vegas
by Michelle Follette Turk
ISBN: 9781948908924
Pub Date: 15 December 2020
Format: Paperback
378 Pages
A critical, long-term study on some of Southern Nevada’s most catastrophic workplace disasters. Updated through 2020, this revised and expanded edition includes discussions on:
Union activity, sexual harassment and misconduct, and race and employment
The change to Las Vegas’ “What happens here, stays here” slogan
The MGM Grand Fire and 1918 influenza pandemic
Work-related musculoskeletal disorders in the service industry
William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster
by Norris Hundley Jr. and Donald C. Jackson
ISBN: 9781948908887
Pub Date: 8 December 2020
Format: Paperback
440 Pages
Heavy Ground explores the social, political, and technological history of the St. Francis Dam Disaster in California, the worst civil engineering disaster in twentieth-century American History. Approximately 400 people died in March 1928, when the concrete gravity dam built by Los Angeles engineer William Mulholland suddenly and tragically collapsed, releasing over 12 billion gallons of water into the Santa Clara River Valley.
William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster
by Norris Hundley and Donald C. Jackson
ISBN: 9781948908894
Pub Date: 8 December 2020
Format: eBook (Epublication 'content package')
448 Pages
Minutes before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed, sending more than twelve billion gallons of water surging through Southern California’s Santa Clara Valley, killing some four...
